NSIndexPath of UITableViewCell subview?

Question

Is there any was to get the NSIndexPath of a UITableViewCell's contentView subview?

In my case, I have a table view in which each row is split into 3 buttons. I can use the button tag to keep track of which column it is but I also need to know what row of the table view it is a subview of (when the user taps the button).

Because the button blocks the entire actual table view row, didSelectRowAtIndexPath is never called (which is expected), so I can't get it that way.

I have tried just [thisButton superview] but that doesn't seem to work. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I assume the button is sending its UIControlEventTouchUpInside event message to your view controller? Then you could do something like:

- (void)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)button
{
    CGPoint location = [button.superview convertPoint:button.center toView:self.tableView];
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:location];
    [self doSomethingWithRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
}

Answer 2

One possible option is when making the cell for index path you can assign the tag to be 3 * row_number + <the tag number>. then just divide the tag by 3 to get the row and %3 to get the button.